Daemon News has this article on Darwin, its relationship to MacOS X and BSD operating systems, and its possible longevity as an Open Source project. I'm personally interested in the technical aspects of Darwin, given that its kernel is related to Mach, with some enhancements coming from BSD, I'm not sure if this makes it a true BSD OS, or some kind of distant cousin.

Anonymous Coward writes "I've put up a small tutorial on setting up 6to4 (on FreeBSD) and am keeping a list of public 6to4 relay routers (which 6to4 users use to get their traffic to non-6to4 sites). The list is way too short right now, so we need more folks to set up relays and/or let me know about them. The quicker IPv6 becomes popular, the easier the eventual transition will be. here's the URL."

OSDNs favorite BSD zealot BSD-Pat Lynch was on the scene at the latest BSDCon, and took the time to send us in a report. Lots of links to stuff for you BSD folks to share and enjoy.

BSD-Pat writes "A new FreeBSD core team has been elected for the first time in the project's history. The BSDToday article can be found here. I'm personally excited that this seems to open up the playing field for developers to get involved on a deeper level with FreeBSD and choose the direction to take for the future." Update: 10/14 01:44 PM by H :BSD-Pat sent an update saying that the story was actually broken by Daily Daemon News.

Noel writes "An article at RootPrompt.org talks about the reaction to the announcements by the OpenBSD developer team about new exploits that implied that the developers had been hiding the truth about the exploits so as to not tarnish the reputation of OpenBSD."

Prolog-X writes "``6to4 is an ad-hoc mechanism by which anyone can participate in IPv6 without having to make any arrangements to hook up to an existing IPv6 network.'' Nick Sayer wrote a short but useful tutorial on how to set up 6to4 on a FreeBSD system."

-is writes "This year, BSDCon will be held from October 14th to the 20th in Monterey, California. Tutorials will be from the 14th through the 17th, and the Conference will be from the 18th through the 20th.

There are plenty of activities of interest (see the conference schedule portion of the BSDCon web site), and a couple of those spotlight NetBSD.

• On October 19th, Charles Hannum will be giving a talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for The Future". This will take place in the Regency Ballroom from 8:30 to 9:30 am.
• On October 20th, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, a member of the NetBSD Core Group, will be giving a talk about NetBSD 1.5. This will take place in Regency I-III from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.
• NetBSD will also be an exhibitor at BSDCon 2000. The Expo hours are from 10:00am to 6:00pm on October 18th, 9:00am to 5:00pm on October 19th, and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on October 20th. Stop by if you can.

Information on other exhibitors, talks, tutorials, and registration can be found on the BSDCon web site."

-is writes: "NetBSD-current IPsec (from KAME) now supports the rijndael algorithm for ESP encryption, thanks to the integration work of Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino. rijndael is the finalist of AES contest, and will be standardized in the FIPS standard suite, to replace DES. The implementation is known to be interoperable with others. Also, it is possible to negotiate rijndael IPsec SA by using the latest racoon IKE daemon (pkgsrc/security/racoon, be sure to get version 20001004a).

For more info see:

• http://www.nist.gov/aes/ (the algorithm itself)
• http://www.kame.net/ (KAME project where NetBSD IPsec comes from)
• http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/ipsec/ (NetBSD IPsec FAQ)

• The change is now on the 1.5 branch, and will be available in the 1.5 release."

HerbieTMac writes "Congrats to FreeBSD for a new single day download record. Two terabytes (that's 2 trillion bytes!) from a single machine (ftp.freesoftware.com). This was brought about by the simultaneous release of RedHat 7 and FreeBSD 4.1.1."

Anonymous Coward writes "The September edition of Boardwatch magazine includes an in-depth interview with Robert Watson, a TrustedBSD developer."

Eladio McCormick writes: "Yeah, I know point releases are not by themselves huge news, but FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE represents a major event, in that the base distribution now includes RSA. Info on the release is online." We've had a number of submissions about this one -- good to see the patent come off, and encryption working its way into more things.

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bjtuna writes "According to this article at the Daily Daemon News, Apple's Darwin is booting on both Intel chips AND Connectix VirtualPC under MacOS." The screenshots are available as is the original link.

chenwah writes: "Jordan K. Hubbard, the big head honcho fella over at FreeBSD, recently posted a 5000 word document to the freebsd hackers mailing list. He discusses the FreeBSD installation program 'sysinstall' and the current package format (tarballs) and the need for something better. Hopefully this could get the ball rolling on something bigger..."

by by writes "In O'Reillynet's Big Scary Daemons column, Michael Lucas explains how to effectively use memory file systems. MFSes are especially useful in diskless workstations. You can even create a MFS larger than physical memory and BSD will use swap space when needed."

A quick glance at the NetBSD changes page will show that in the quest to get a login prompt on everything with a processor, the NetBSD team have done it again. NetBSD is now ported to the RC3230 platform from MIPS Computing, hence NetBSD/mipsco. At the same time, preliminary support for the LX200/300 variants of the MVME162 have been added to the NetBSD/mvme68k port. Has anyone ever had all the platforms that can run NetBSD up and running in the same place at the same time? Is it even feasible?

sirhan writes " I know it's been a while since LinuxWorld 2000 in San Jose, but DeamonNews had this piece about the big BSD presence and a recap of the events."

Chris Coleman is putting his money where his mouth is, after his recent suggestion that the BSDs need a unified package collection. The creation of www.openpackages.org was the next logical step, and Chris discusses this in his latest Daemon News editorial. With representatives from the three free BSD projects, as well as Apple (MacOS X) on board, this certainly has the potential to bring about closer ties between the BSD distributions at a level that will affect a lot of users.

by by writes "O'Reillynet's OpenBSD Explained column recently explained how to setup IPv6 on OpenBSD. Interesting glimpse into the future of the Internet." True enough. It was my impression that the BSDs all got IPv6 at the same time though, courtesy of the work carried out by the KAME group. On a very much related note, Jim O'Gorman has written an IPv6 Behind a NAT article for this month's Daemon News, which also makes getting involved in IPv6 easier.

A reader writes "At his keynote at Seybold today, Steve Jobs announced that Mac OS X beta will ship on September 13th. More details at MacNN's site." This is the beta - but the Sept. 13th beta launch is the first day of Paris Mac Expo, meaning that it probably will happen. He also confirmed that they are on target for an "early 2001" release of OSX.